It is not known who will take over for Turner, but current Director of Player Personnel Jimmy Raye is the apparent replacement for Smith. Raye, who has been with the Chargers for 17 seasons, will ascend to a job much like Smith’s but with his new right-hand man being the owner’s son, John Spanos.

The younger Spanos, currently the team’s Director of College Scouting, has long been in line to take over the Chargers’ football operations, but the plan was for that to not happen until the expiration of Smith’s contract after the 2014 season.

AJ brought a huge amount of talent here aside from that trade, and his recent picks have been contributing a ton. Over the past few years he's brought Butler, Liuget, Reyes, Ingram, Thomas. But he was likely to leave soon anyway, the fans are POed, the Oline hasn't been addressed as it needed to be (although not entirely his fault aside from keeping Clary and no backup plan at LT) and so it made sense._________________

Bohlmann20 (On The 95 Cleveland Browns Staff) wrote:

Lombardi - Isn't that the guy the trophy is named after? If so, top 3 coach of all time.